"John Gaquin" wrote in message
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Why? Because they can! These are the people who will come up with
bizarre
and outrageous new ways to use internet communication in ways we've never
dreamed of. They are the future, and it will be here tomorrow. Hell,
I've
still got a 10" open reel tape deck, and think CDs are a miracle!

As a network provider geek I can see some very good reasons for "war
driving" or "war flying." If you identify an unprotected network, you can
inform the owner or administrator of the network that he's unprotected.

Our tech support folks have dealt with DSL outage issues where it turns out
the caller never even installed his DSL modem. He said he had a WiFi card
in his laptop, fired it up and it worked for weeks, so he didn't think he
needed the modem. Turns out he was inadvertently hijacking his neighbor's
DSL or cable connection. If you're the kind of guy that makes $125/hr
doing WiFi network security, or even not, you can do somebody a favor by
letting them know that there network is entirely vulnerable to anybody
driving (or even flying) by.

-c